So these weights don’t count as “derived works” because they are not code, but can only be used to generate code (among many other things) in conjunction with an LLM architecture?

Question is whether they would lose now with the US government even more captured by special interest and money.

Yeah, I don’t disagree with that. Just wanted to highlight that strong software projects are not enough.

I work in SW for a device vendor and I see how much communication there is between OS, vendors and everything in between.

You need hardware vendors on board or you’ll get nowhere.